Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later

besselj@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can remove them with custom uBlock rules:

  www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#thumbnail[href*="/shorts"]:upward(7)
  www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#endpoint[title*="Shorts"]
  

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop. On the plus side, the kids I work with are learning that ads are to be disliked. When an ad interrupts something we’re watching, I go “booo.” Now one of my students does it, too.

    At least I can consider it a form of inoculation - gotta teach ‘em young to resist the ever-present brainwashing attempts advertisements.

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    • dotslashme@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop.

      Me too, what is up with not having an adblocker or bring able to install one? So many ads pose security issues and not being able to block them is just annoying and unsafe.

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  • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The internet got a lot less annoying after I learned how to use uBlock Origin’s “Enter element picker mode”

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Youtube is worse. If you click “dont recommend this (far-right rage-baiting) channel” it says okay, and then leaves you alone for perhaps a week.

  After, right back to square one as that channel is in your recommended feeds

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your clicks say no, but your algorithm is telling me yes. 😘

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    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Shit like this is why freetube exists. Subscribe to the channels you want to see, get only those channels!

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And is programmed by a far right tech bro programmer or apathetic yes-man who answers to one anyways yup.

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve never gotten any right wing recommendation. There’s something you’re watching that makes that recommendation happen.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      victim blaming, love it

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      • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As someone who also doesn’t get recommended right or far right content, it’s not victim blaming to say that the algorithm thinks they want to watch those kinds of things.

        The algorithm is shit. But there’s something about their activity, when filtered through the algorithm, results in those suggestions. This is just a statement of fact.

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    • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      These algorithms are not solely based on the things you watch. I believe it’s also based on your location and even close contacts. So if, hypothetically, I live in shithole Trumpistan with my racist uncle and he likes watching Hitler Youth “own the libs” then YouTube will recommend it to me too

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  • themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.

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  • Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Really? I have managed to completely block a few channels from getting recommended, including one I didn’t want to block. Annoying thing is there’s no way to manage these blocks, only remove all of them at once.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t have this problem on mobile. I use pipepipe and don’t sign in. No shorts. Simple list for subscriptions without signing in. Easily transfers to new phones. No ads.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I find the recommendations in pipe pipe are severely lacking though. How do you find new content?

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      • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah yes, it’s true. I don’t use recommendations. People send me videos or I see them on here and go from there. Old school.

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• Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Modern internet is impossible to use without a copious amount of plugins. Every website has some fucking cancer that needs to be removed in order for a site to be even remotely useful.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The best are those websites with 4 ads at once and at least one of them is a video as that auto plays.

    Jokes on them, I just close and abandon the article. Fuck that.

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  • themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder if YouTube lets these plugins through because it doesn’t want to attract antitrust suits

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think they just didn’t allocate enough resources to combat it yet. They tried to stop it couple of times, unsuccessfully

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• Itisreallyboring@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube

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• Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They know it’s addictive, and they’ve designed it that way on purpose.

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• Dvixen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Instagram pulls this shit too. Clicking to block an account counts as engagement, so they throw more of that type of crap at you.

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